About Alconox

With more than 60 years of experience in formulation of quality aqueous cleaners, Alconox, Inc. understands the cleaning needs of the pharmaceutical industry, including stringent FDA regulations and GMP compliance. Pharmaceutical processing professionals need safe, effective, and easy to validate cleaners for manual, machine wash, and clean-in-place applications for removing difficult to clean residues like titanium dioxide, petrolatum, and tablet coating residues.

Alconox Products

Alconox, Inc. has a range of 12 products, which vary from high emulsifying to low foaming and powder to liquid. Alconox aqueous cleaners are ideal for a variety of cleaning applications including ultrasonic, clean in place, machine, and parts washer.

The experts at Alconox formulate all cleaners to be biodegradeable, readily disposable, and free rinsing to leave no interfering residues.

Sizes range from single gallon and four-pound boxes to drums, ideal for scaling from the research and development stage to large-scale manufacturing.

Solujet cleaner is the detergent to consider for your next new pharmaceutical cleaning project. Unlike a leading CIP cleaner, Solujet has high wetting surfactants that enhance emulsifying, wetting, dispersing and rinsing. The surfactants allow faster, more efficient cleaning and easier rinsing.

Detergent 8 is concentrated to save you money, biodegradable, and readily disposable. Its penetrating wetting power saves you time. It’s free rinsing to give you reliable results and no interfering residues.

Q. We are interested in Alconox® detergent for cleaning during our production process. Since we produce several kinds of medicine, we need to be sure Alconox® do not leave any residue after cleaning. We want to test the residue of Alconox® by UV method or HPLC method. Could you send reference or guide on these methods?

Nanotechnology is currently employed across a wide range of industrial, research, and academic applications. Stringent cleaning protocols are essential to the successful fabrication of nanotechnology particles, structures, and systems.

This white paper outlines the basics of cleaning validation and the role that the cleaner manufacturer can play in simplifying, speeding up, and supporting the maintenance of cleaning validation.

Aqueous Critical Cleaning: Applications In Medical Device Manufacturing
Aqueous cleaners are suitable for a range of cleaning methods commonly employed in medical device manufacturing including ultrasonic, manual, soak and automated. The range in formulation from acidic to basic, high emulsifying to low foaming, and availability of liquid concentrates to powder blends ensures that a cleaner can be found to clean whatever residues are encountered using whatever the cleaning method is being used. Submitted by Alconox

Excerpt: The Aqueous Cleaning Handbook
Pharmaceutical equipment includes everything from bench
scale lab apparatus used for trials to full scale bulk manufacturing
equipment. Regardless of scale, all pharmaceutical
equipment must meet government standards for cleanliness